History WeCanRuleTogether / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''
** In "Aftermath", Servalan offers this to Avon. He rejects her not for [[AntiHero moral reasons]], but because he suspects that once she had what she wanted from him, he'd "[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder be dead in a week]]."
** Played for laughs when a MadScientist who's enamored with Servalan offers this trope in exchange for his superweapon. Servalan has had plenty of {{Hot Consort}}s, but as the scientist is a [[AbhorrentAdmirer balding middle-aged loony with facial warts]] even she finds it difficult to play along.

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': In "Chapter 27", Past Amahl Farouk invites David Haller to meet him in the AlternateTimeline once David becomes an adult, and suggests that they take over the world, but David isn't interested.

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' sometimes receives offers like this, with his enemies usually throwing in the NotSoDifferentRemark. Most notably, a powerful sorcerer sweetened the offer by playing up his insecurities and the past abuse heaped upon him. Once he threatened [[TheNotLoveInterest Arthur]] however, all bets were off.

* In the climax of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "Dark Child", Laura and her daughter Tammy are confronted by an alien who reveals that he is Tammy's biological father, who was conceived when he abducted and raped Laura years ago. He puts an apparent brainwashing necklace on Tammy and offers that she and Laura join him. They are family, and Tammy's status as a HalfHumanHybrid makes her potentially more powerful than a regular member of his race, so she will be a valuable asset in his race's invasion plans for Earth. Laura's encouragement gives Tammy the strength to remove the necklace. The alien loses his temper at their rejection and attempts to telekinetically strangle Laura, but Tammy angrily knocks him away and Laura stabs and kills him.
* ''Series/ShadowAndBone''. Once she is in his clutches, General Kirigan offers Alina Starkov a chance to rule by his side: the light to his darkness. Alina says they ''could'' have ruled together, as equals, but Kirigan just wants to use her as his weapon.

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Redemption II", the Duras sisters offer Worf a regency (through marriage) over the Klingon Empire, which he rejects immediately out of disgust (and hey, they ''were'' scheming all over the place). The Romulans just as quickly make themselves known, since it was their hands in it.

** Hilariously inverted in the episode "Our Man Bashir", where Bashir is playing a Bond-like hero on the holodeck, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to complicated reasons involving a]] HolodeckMalfunction is attempting to keep the story going without killing any of the villains like he's supposed to, or have any of the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]] die like one of them is supposed to. It ends with Bashir, the ''good guy'', giving the reverse of the speech, saying he's tired of being the good guy and will join the villain, and then he himself destroys the world while the holodeck characters act like he's gone utterly insane. The holodeck villain is visibly confused by this complete and utter derailment of the plot and then attempts to kill him anyway.
** In the episode "You Are Cordially Invited", we learn that an occurrence of this in the Klingon creation myth is the traditional source of their concept of ''marriage''. It's also why they believe all of their creator [[GodIsDead gods are dead]].
** This is standard FirstContact procedure for [[TheEmpire The Dominion]]- if they want to annex a civilisation, they send in the Vorta to offer a single military officer or government official total domination over his people and nation in exchange for allegiance. If this fails, they send in the Jem'Hadar.

* ''Series/IronFist2017'' has a variation when Madame Gao suggests that Danny Rand [[ImpliedDeathThreat and his friends]] enjoy the [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob hedonistic pleasures of a billionaire lifestyle]] while turning a blind eye to how the Hand is using Rand Enterprises as a cover for their illicit activities. Even if he hadn't been trained to fight the Hand for the past fifteen years, Danny is too naively idealistic to take such an offer. Later Bakuto tries to convince Danny to join the Hand by presenting Gao's organisation as a RenegadeSplinterFaction, but Danny is skeptical and quickly discovers that Bakuto is little different from Gao.

-->'''Sauron:''' All others look on you with doubt... I alone can see your greatness. I alone can see your light.\\
'''Galadriel:''' You would make me a tyrant.\\
'''Sauron:''' [[WeCanRuleTogether I would make you a queen.]] Fair as the sea and the sun. Stronger than the foundations of the earth.\\
'''Galadriel:''' And you... my king? The Dark Lord?\\
'''Sauron:''' No, not dark, not with you at my side. You told me once that we were brought together for a purpose... this is it. You bind me to the light, and I bind you to power. Together we can save this Middle-earth.

* Oddly invoked and lampshaded in ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'', in the episode "Blood Ties" (a backdoor pilot for a cop drama involving two female police officers). A team of renegade cops, who have taken to murdering known felons and placing "organ donor" stickers on their driver's licenses so their organs can be harvested for transplants, tries to convince the two protagonist cops to join them. One of the two officers comments that this reminded her of a Film/JamesBond scene, where the villain tries to convince Bond to join him in taking over the world. She says, "All Bond had to do was say 'yes', and he could buy enough time for his fellow agents to rescue him and save the day. I never understood why he never said 'yes'... until now. The answer is 'no'."

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': In "Chapter 27", Past Amahl Farouk invites David Haller to meet him in the AlternateTimeline once David becomes an adult, and suggests that they take over world, but David isn't interested.

** Hilariously inverted in the episode "Our Man Bashir", where Bashir is playing a Bond-like hero on the holodeck, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to complicated reasons involving a]] HolodeckMalfunction is attempting to keep the story going without killing any of the villains like he's supposed to, or have any of the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]] die like one of them is supposed to. It ends with Bashir, the ''good guy'', gives the reverse of the speech, saying he's tired of being the good guy and will join the villain, and then he himself destroys the world while the holodeck characters act like he's gone utterly insane. The holodeck villain is visibly confused by this complete and utter derailment of the plot and then attempts to kill him anyway.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': One offers Eleven the chance for them to dominate the world together after he slaughters the other children in the lab, she refuses.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Lucifer tries to tempt Castiel, a fellow fallen angel, into joining his cause. Castiel tells him he'd die first. And Lucifer's overall plan through the entire series was to get Sam to agree to be his vessel, and in the end Sam says ''yes''- but only so he can trap him in an inescapable prison.